China's symbolic support boosted Algerian fighters' morale more than arms [causal]
As it had done all the way from November 1954, through the Soummam Conference of 1956, and regardless of all personal conflicts and schisms, the F.L.N. kept its aims fundamentally unaltered with the creation of the G.P.R.A. With Abbas as the frontispiece, however, a new and seductive appearance of flexibility and softness of approach temporarily cloaked the G.P.R.A.
Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 967